We’re Creme Eggin’ It…
There has always been a part of me that has been drawn to the ice cream from McDonalds, it’s milkiness and texture always reminded me of Mr Whippy ice creams but without the threat of losing half of it as it dripped from the wafer cone. I used to be fairly skeptical of the McFlurry range though, because it seemed to me like the dessert equivalent of the deep fried candy bar, you take two things that people love and mix them together and hope for the best. This was a ridiculous concern, seeing as when I had a Mr Whippy, I always ordered it as a 99 (ice cream cone with chocolate flake).
Over the years McDonalds has offered several different types of McFlurry, and around Easter time we frequently get a special one marketed – even though sometimes they remain all year. The most common special is the Cadbury’s Creme Egg McFlurry, though there have been years where they’ve used Cadbury’s Mini Eggs instead.
How Do You Eat Yours?
Ok, it isn’t really that simple, because as everyone knows the McFlurry doesn’t chop up and break apart chocolate. If it is using chocolate fragments, it’s already been processed and broken down or they are using things to emulate the taste.
The Creme Egg McFlurry uses the latter approach, instead of breaking up a Creme Egg, fragments of thin chocolate (I’m not quite convinced Cadbury Dairy Milk) are dropped on top of Ice Cream, along with a squirt of soft sugary, caramel sauce – the same consistency you’d find in a Cadbury’s Caramel bar or egg. The white fondant is replaced with a very little amount of yellow-coloured fondant mixed in with the milky ice cream, supposedly – I couldn’t taste much difference.
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The fondant and caramel issue is hotly debated, primarily by me and the voices in my head, as to whether there is actually fondant at all or if I’m just hoping, and whether that was really tasty caramel or weird tasting fondant. I’m going to stick my neck out and say that the taste is prinipally Milky Ice Cream, Chocolate and Caramel.
This can actually serve to the homemaker in you though, because by just getting milky ice cream, caramel sauce and thin chocolate you can easily make your own in huge quantities, and if you want to add fondant then it’s a sticky, time-consuming but not too difficult job to make some. Just grab a blender and serve!
In fact, screw that. If you have a blender just bung in a whole creme egg and the ice cream, then whip that baby to goo!
I think the main reason we don’t have them here in the States is due to the fact that the Cadbury eggs are just seasonal here. I think McDonalds is missing out on a good thing though, given the popularity of the Eggs during the Easter season those things would sell like mad! I’d gladly give up a Shamrock Shake for a Cadbury McFlurry in a heartbeat!
That still strikes me as bizarre, that you only get Creme Eggs for a season, whereas we get them all year through. Although, at Easter they tend to really fill the shelves with them.
Yeah, yeah rub it in! Belive it or not there is actually a taste difference between the two as well. My wife’s boss transferred here from the UK and brought me one and a Cadbury chocolate bar. Holy crow! They were so much richer and more chocolaty than anything we get here! I have to admit I’m a bit jealous.
Oh, I believe it. I’ve had US candy and chocolate, you guys tend to do fruit-based candies sweeter but I’m sorry to say the chocolate seemed a tad…bland? Just wait until Galaxy chocolate, that’s chocolate silk.
Oh I know! I had one of those as well. Unbelievable! And your right, compared to your chocolate, ours is very bland. I’ve already made an order for Claire (the boss) for when she goes back for things I want. I tried to get her to bring over an Irn Bru for me gefore she left (because of that wickedly creepy commercial you posted) but I didn’t cath her in time. Dang it!
Dan,
Here’s a bizarre comment based on an obvious typo (but I laughed enough, I’ll share anyway):
You didn’t CATH her in time?? like she drank it, but the cath wasn’t inserted in time for you to capture it??
It’s an ugly image, not funny comment that I probably shouldn’t have shared. But… what the hell.
My mission this weekend (besides eating too much corned beef and cabbage) will be to create a Cadbury creme egg flavored alcoholic drink. Can’t find one online. Anyone know of one?? Suggestions on how to create one??
D’oh! Guess I should read before I press submit huh? She’s cute and all but I don’t know that I’d wanna cath her!
As for a drink, maybe Bailey’s as a base? Just a suggestion. Sorry Guise didn’t mean to highjack your blog.
Dan, I see no reason for you to need to apologise, make yourself comfortable here!
FM, I’d agree with Dan on Baileys for a base, especially if you can add air to froth it a bit. Maybe some grated chocolate and soft caramel on top. If you want to fill it out, add it to milk (either cold or pre-heated, but add Baileys at room temp) or mix it with ice cream.
So many options… Maybe I’ll just have to try a bunch of combinations until I get it right. So I’ll need Bailey’s, chocolate, caramel, milk (or cream?), ice cream, Smithwick’s (for consumption during the process)… man it’s gonna be a good weekend.
Any other ideas?
Ok!! Enough already!!! As if you weren’t torturing me with pictures of galaxy eggs, now this! God.. I hate you… On a side note though, nothing can compare to Steak and Shakes ‘Bits and Pieces’ milkshakes.. holy crap… These shakes own anything McNasty has to offer. The only real thing I miss from England is…. Chips and vinegar and a decent curry and Jaffa Cakes and and….
Wait, they have milkshakes with bits of steak in it?! I have to disagree on the principle that McD’s Banana Milkshake kicks much buttock, and the Chocolate Milkshake is a good way to miss school by getting sick.
Cadbury’s Jaffa Cakes are nowhere near as good as Mcvities, the chocolaty bit is wrong, the spongy bit is too dry and the orangy bit is to much like jelly.
You know…next friday is Good Friday, and that means Fish, Chips, Pickled Egg, Salt, Vinegar and lashings of Tomato Sauce!
Oh, oh and curry…Special offers in town for takeaway! Keema Naan that is bigger than a steak plate! Bombay mix with all the dried peas, old rice and half dead insects! Cobra lager in litre bottles! MANGO CHUTNEY! I might have to YouTube a home curry night at some point…just for you ‘bear, that’ll learn ya!
<— sad bear
You can keep the picked egg though… Ewwww… and I wasn’t even aware that Cadbury’s made Jaffa Cakes.. I am so out of the loop =(
Bah! Pickled Eggs are love, and you know you want me to pickle your eggs!
This thing looks like diabetes in a cup, but I can imagine that it is delicious. I like just the regular McD’s sundees, with chocolate syrup, and you can’t beat a Cadbury’s Egg, so I bet the combination would be pretty tasty.
And yeah, I agree. When I was in the UK I had a lot of chocolate bars, especially brands that we didn’t have here cause I wanted to try something new and there is something different about the chocolate there. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but it’s different. Even the Sinckers tasted different. There was one that kind of stood out though. It was shaped like a triangle, and I think it had a picture of a lion on the wrapper. Although it could be that I’m getting the triangle one confused with another one that had a lion on the wrapper. Anyone know what I’m talking about? It was pretty good.
The one with the lion on may have been the Lion bar which has caramel, wafer biscuit and rice crispies in (did it look like this?).
The triangle one, are you thinking of Toblarone, which is swiss chocolate? Toblerone!
Snickers, pshaw. I knew Snickers when they were called Marathon over here. Damn name changes.
Guise, Yep, those are the ones! Thanks. I had no idea that Snickers was once anything other than Snickers. It’s funny cause that commercial you linked to was Americanized when I was a kid and I can remember the American version pretty well. It had the same premise–interviewing people on the street and all that–and even used the same theme song. And I remember they used to use that same shot of the handful of peanuts that turns into the Snickers bar. It was almost shot for shot exactly the same, except with a bunch of Yanks instead.
My fave candy bars are Snickers, Twix, 3 Muskateers, Watchamcallit, Hershey’s bar, and Nestle Crunch. I don’t understand Milky Way though. It’s just Snickers without the peanuts. And I ask you, where’s the fun in that?
Where, indeed?
Milky way = Mars Bar and 3 Muskateers = Milky Way. I don’t know why they have to rename products for consumers in different countries. Maybe they were scared American’s would get confused by having products with similar names and ‘dumbed’ the chance of them buying the wrong thing. I’ve seen toblerone in my local supermarket and Lion Bars… Jewel has this whole aisle dedicated to ‘foreign’ foods and the English section is pitiful but I make do. It has the essentials.. PG Tips tea, Salad Cream, Marmite, Random British Chocolate, Baked Beans and some other crap that I wouldn’t eat when I was actually in England. Another great place to check out for foreign foods is World Market or have your very good English buddy mail you a box of goodies. Guisey!! Mail me FUD!
Wait, Mars has caramel in it too. Milky Way was ‘the sweet you can eat between meals without spoiling your appetite’, and used to have a different kind of nougat inside. It’s like white now, used to be milk chocolatey. Though, I used to have a finger of Fudge, that was just enough to give the kids a treat.
Starburst/Opal Fruits, Jif/Cif (I miss “Jif Micro Liquid where are you?”, but that was down to EU company not American), Coco Pops/Choco Krispies (but we won that and got our Coco Pops back!), it’s no bloody wonder we don’t want the stinkin’ Euro!
But, what about Rolo?
We get rolo here, it is exactly the same and no you can’t have my last one!
:sniffles: I thought you wuvved me?! I don’t mind, I have Rolo in the shape of an egg.
Well, do you have…Frazzles? Monster Munch? Chocolate HobNobs? Rich Tea? Penguins? Jammie Dodgers?
Pickled onion Monster Munch =(
Why do you torture me so much!
If you’d shown me some wuv, but noooooo…I’m so unwuvved, so vewwy unwuvved!
1977, but I remember them running that one again in the early/mid-80s.
Only 7p, Taybear…only seven-goddamn-pee! 1981, what a time to be alive…and until late June I wasn’t!
Ah, this is the one I really remember from my childhood. I really wanted to cuddle that big pink one, he looked like a fluffy pillow. I may have to get Monster Munch, see if they are as utterly amazing as I remember!
hahaha.. omg sadly I remember when crisps cost 10p a bag.. Brings back fond memories of going in the corner shop after school and spending 20p on a bag of monster munch and some penny sweets. I especially liked the stuff that popped in your mouth and sherbet! Oh oh, remember those ‘Salt n Shake’ crisps and Frazzles.. Mmm strips of bacon goodness and ‘Fish and Chips’ and I can’t remember the name of these, they were shaped like sticks and tasted like salt and vinegar.. I can picture the bag.. I must be getting old.
Dime bars! Do they still make them?
CHIP STIX!
Why would I need to remember Salt n Shake and Frazzles…I can still buy them!!
“Diiiiime Bar? Diiiiime Bar? “…”Dime bar. Chewy on the outside, crunchy on the inside.”…”I likes ARMADILLO! Crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside. Armadillo!”
Um, think you can still get them!
Classic Harry Enfield, though not as strong marketting as his Yorkshireman character, “Eat white bread with nowt fartin’ about wit’…don’t be a poof, eat white bread.”
Holy crap, Monster Munch looked trippy. Looks like something out of H.R. Pufinstuff. I normally wouldn’t mention this, but being that this is Guise’s blog and all, I don’t think it would be wholey inappropriate. Did anyone else notice the pink guy’s sudden head erection in the second commerical? I don’t know, it looked like he got real excited about Monster Munch there at the end.
I like that Dime commercial too. Of course, being on this side of the pond, this is the first I’ve heard of any of these things or seen any of these commercials…..”Oy! Nutter!”
DJ D, he kept doing that neck thing, even in the mini promotional comics, the erection thing was not missed on the school playground!
There was a time where all the kids would spout the phrases “Armadillos!”, “Diiiime Barrrr” and “That blokes a nutter!”, despite very few of them actually eating the thing. We loved Harry Enfield back then, his new stuff isn’t as good. The good ol’ days of Kevin the Younger Brother, Kevin the Teenager, Mr You-Didn’t-Want-To-Do-That, Chumley-Warner and Grayson, Old Gits, Dirty Old Ladies, Tim Nice-But-Dim, Lee and Lance, The Slobs.
Man, that’s too much. We would have had so much fun with that when I was a kid.
My favorite commercials when I was a kid were the Wendy’s “Where’s the beef?” ones (lots of veiled sexual inferences there), and the Bonkers one with the giant fruit falling down on people.
To this day, I hate the annoying Encyclapedia Brittanica kid in those commercials. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen that or not, but he’s just asking for it.